Effectively Wild Episode 853: 2016 Season Preview Series: Los Angeles Dodgers

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Ben and Sam preview the Dodgers’ season with Vice Sports editor Eric Nusbaum, and Jeff talks to Los Angeles Times Dodgers beat writer Andy McCullough (at 21:22).

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0:00.0	A break calamity, dish of iniquity and joy.
0:10.0	How I avoid this place, it's sweet and bitter taste.
0:16.0	It's left me wretched, rushing on on foils.
0:21.0	Lost and to be high.
0:31.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 853 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball
0:37.6	Perspectus presented by our Patreon supporters and the baseball reference play index.
0:42.6	I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus.
0:47.0	Hello.
0:48.0	So this is the end after our six week Odyssey, our trip through every team.
0:52.8	We come to the Dodgers, the last team in our preview series later in this episode.
0:57.7	Jeff Potternastro will be talking to Andy McCullough who covers the Dodgers for the LA times.
1:03.0	We are talking to the author of the Dodgers essay in the BP annual and the West Coast editor for Vice Sports.
1:09.4	Eric Nassbaum.
1:10.4	Hey, Eric.
1:11.0	Hey, how you guys doing?
1:12.2	All right.
1:13.2	So we all know all the things that Dodgers have going for them.
1:17.0	They have the highest payroll in baseball.
1:19.4	They have the number one farm system in baseball, according to baseball Perspectus.
1:24.2	And they have the best projected winning percentage according to PCODA by one point.
1:29.4	So they pretty much have the present and future covered.
1:32.7	But you in your essays delved into sort of the holistic approach that they have really
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